![]() ![]() Informative, revealing, powerful and necessary. The collective portrait that emerges from these narratives and pictures is diverse, complex and occasionally self-contradictory-as any true story should be. Similarly, sex and genitalia are discussed frankly but are rarely what matters most. Images of the young people before their transitions are often included but, appropriately, do not serve as focal points for their chapters. ![]() Christina, who attends Fashion Institute of Technology, is pictured shopping for clothes, proudly displaying a school project and hugging her mother. In photographs, readers see Nat, who attends a performing-arts high school in New York City and uses the personal gender pronouns them and they, carrying their violin on New York’s High Line. Their stories are told largely in the teens’ own words, with only a few italicized interpolations to clarify or contextualize a point or to describe a facial expression or inflection readers cannot see or hear. They hear from teens who identify fully as female or male, teens who identify as neither male nor female, and one teen who is intersex. ![]() In verbal and, when the subjects have given permission, visual profiles, readers meet transgender teens with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. Kuklin ( No Choirboy, 2008, etc.) brings her intimate, compassionate and respectful lens to the stories of six transgender young people. ![]()
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